The weekend kicked off the annual Fat & Skinny Tire Festival, of which I didn’t participate a whole lot, but I do enjoy it being here. Friday was the community group ride from the Village at Winona to downtown Warsaw. I rode out to join the ride. There were hundreds of people in the ride, bigger crowd than I’ve ever seen at it. I think. I just came right home instead of staying for the stunt bike show and got to work on the other half of the weekend activities: the lawn & garden type. I had to get the grass cut in the front and finish getting the flowers that we’d bought last weekend into the ground. Beth helped as she could and so did Nat, but we were eventually driven indoors by the mosquitoes with a few left to plant. Saturday I got up early to do some shopping: first to Menard’s for some grass seed and new hoses, then to Lowe’s to pick out a nice new gas grill (the old grill is turning into a rusted out hunk of junk quickly now), then down to the Village again to get in on the backyard sale at Cloud 9, where I found a nice pair of Saucony running shoes for a real steal. At least I hope they’re nice, I haven’t run in them yet. Did some other shopping at the shops in the Village and saw a used Trek mountain bike for sale at the Trail House that I was very interested in…so later on I bike back down to the Village to get lunch at the 2nd Mile Adventures tent (pulled pork) and watch some of the MTB race. Then back in at the Trail House I asked about the Trek; they sent me out on a test ride and to my disappointment the bike was just a little too small. The seal was maxed out high and my hands were hurting by the time I got back from the test ride. Too bad, it was a nice bike. Sunday we stayed home after church because Beth wasn’t feeling good, so I got to work. Assemble the grill, check. Finish getting the flowers in the ground, check. Break down all the boxes piled in the garage, check. Clean up the work area in the garage, check. Get the lawn tractor out from behind the camper, check. Get the arbor vitae into the ground in the backyard, check. Re-seed some of the backyard lawn patches that haven’t grown much, check. Shower, check…

In other news of the week: on Tuesday I got scoped, top half this time. Only the second time I’ve been put under, but this time I didn’t have to completely clean out the GI tract first which was nice. I was being checked to see what’s what with the acid reflux/heartburn I’ve been having lately (although it hasn’t been too bad for the past few weeks). It’s an odd feeling when you wake up and have no idea how long you’ve been out. After going under I only remember opening my eyes and Beth was sitting there. She said I’d only been out for half an hour but it could have been a week for all I knew. Everything looked normal. 

Also Tuesday: FCC softball’s second game and second loss of the season. We were keeping with the other team all right until I let one of the guys pitch. He’s wanted to try pitching, so I started letting him last year. He’s not good at it yet. He pitched one inning this week and gave up 10 runs, including walking in several of them. Anyway, at least the game ended because the clock ran out instead of being mercied. Even though I had been put under for the scoping earlier in the day, I played. Split time at second with another guy. And batted twice, got one hit. Not a good one though.